Summer Language Course
For students entering 5th & 6th Year
Monday 29th June – Friday 10th July 2026
Our 2-week intensive Summer Language Courses are designed to help students entering 5th and 6th year improve their French, German & Spanish language skills. Our experienced and skilled teachers deliver these courses in the immersive classroom environment where students can improve oral and written fluency, expression, and comprehension in the Senior Cycle curriculum.
All classes take place onsite at our campus on Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
Students attending these classes receive the following benefits:
- Tuition from highly qualified and experienced educators.
- Comprehensive, exam focused course notes, which support classroom tuition.
- Strategies for maximising exam performance.
- Improve your vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and conversational technique.
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To learn more about what will be covered in each class, please select from the subject list below:
French (H)
- Grammar: We will cover the core grammatical structures needed to communicate confidently, including determiners, prepositions, adjectives, pronouns and tenses.
- Reading Comprehensions: We will work on past papers, study examination techniques, and build up vocabulary for this section. Both journalistic and literary passages will be studied.
- Listening Comprehension: With daily practice with past papers, we will study key vocabulary needed for this section.
- Written Production: We will study opinion pieces, narrative stories, diary entries and emails, looking at past questions and studying sample answers. Students will learn how to structure a written piece and maximise their marks. Comprehensive notes will be provided for the major abstract topics.
- Oral Preparation: We will look at all aspects of the interview, including French pronunciation, vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. Detailed notes will be provided on all oral topics.
German (H)
- Journalistic and literary Reading comprehension practice with in-depth concentration on answering skills and techniques for the exam paper.
- Leaving Certificate German Oral format and marking scheme will be covered in detail including some roleplays and pictures sequences
- General Questions topics will be covered for the Oral and letter writing section
- Productive writing techniques and essential Grammar needed for the written paper and Oral exam
- Essential Grammar areas covered … Tenses/ Cases / Word Order / Relative pronoun / Sentence Structure
- Aural comprehension practice with emphasis on essential skills required for the aural exam using online authentic listening material.
- The course will concentrate on building up and developing the student’s communicative skills in written and oral proficiency
- Some aspects of German Culture, Literature, and Film will be covered.
Please note: The role-plays and picture stories contained in these notes are the official examination materials for 6th Year students sitting the Leaving Cert in June 2027. They are not applicable to 5th Year students sitting the exam in 2028, as the Department of Education has not yet released the official materials for that exam year.
Spanish (H)
This course is designed to prepare students for all aspects of the Leaving Cert Higher Level Spanish exam.
- General overview of the Exam Paper.
- Exam techniques and vocabulary from past papers.
- Opinion piece (Structure, topics, vocabulary, idiomatic expressions…)
- Writing techniques for Dialogue construction, Diary entry and Note.
- Sentence building. Work on common errors.
- Vocabulary from past papers
- Vocabulary for the weather report
- Strategies to maximise marks
- Verbs: present, future, conditional, 3 past tenses, subjunctive, imperative and gerund
- Some special verbs: gustar, ser and estar
- Pronouns
- Synonyms and False Friends
- Understanding the oral exam.
- Interview. Expanding on common topics.
- Sample answers.
- Role-plays – preparation.
The following are the times when each language’s class will be held;
European Languages (French, German, Spanish)
Classes take place each day from 10:00-13:00
Please note:
- All classes take place on our main school campus, 79-85 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2.
The fee for this course is €595.
Please note:
- Credit Card payments accepted.
- If you can attend 1 week only, we will provide a 30% discount – Contact our office on 01 661 3511 to avail of this discount.
- 10% reduction for the second and subsequent members of the same family, attending the same courses. Please contact our office to avail of this discount.
- Fees are non-transferable.
A: No, a hard copy will be provided to each student from the teacher for the subjects they enrol in.
Q: How long is each class?
A: Each class will run over 3 hours each day.
Q: How much is the fee per class?
A: Please refer to the fees table to see a list of fees.
Q: Is attendance at courses monitored?
A: Yes, students are required to sign a roll sheet at each class they attend. The Institute however accepts no responsibility for students who fail to attend class.
Q: Are the classes conducted ‘lecture style’ or are students free to ask questions?
A: Our classes are interactive and our teachers use a variety of methods to ensure that students can ask questions and contribute to the class.
Q: My son/daughter cannot attended the course. Can we buy the notes?
A: No. Teaching is a central part of all our courses. The notes are to facilitate recall and revision of the day’s work covered by the teacher.